Strategic Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Contemporary Military Innovation

   Between anticipation and adaption

   Edited by Dima Adamsky, Kjell Inge Bjerga

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption. The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character of war. Known as the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Twenty-First Century Seapower

   Cooperation and conflict at sea

   Edited by Peter Dutton, Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Australia as an Asia-Pacific Regional Power

   Friendships in Flux?

   Edited by Brendan Taylor

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   During recent years, in its traditional role as an important Asia-Pacific regional power, Australia has had to cope with a rapidly changing external security environment and a series of new challenges, including a rising China, an increasingly assertive United States, and most notably the Global...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904-05

   Secret Operations on Land and at Sea

   By Evgeny Sergeev

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   Examining Russian military intelligence in the war with Japan of 1904-05, this book, based on newly-accessible documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic archives, gives an overview of the origins, structure and performance of Russian military intelligence in the Far East at the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Security and International Politics in the South China Sea

   Towards a co-operative management regime

   Edited by Sam Bateman, Ralf Emmers

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   The South China Sea has long been regarded as a major source of tension and instability in East Asia. Managing the risk of possible conflict over disputed claims in the South China Sea has been a significant challenge for regional relations. This book explores international politics and security in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century

   Europe, America and the rise of the rest

   By Erwan Lagadec

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century. The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. Terrorism, Drugs & Crime in Europe after 1992 (Routledge Revivals)

   By Richard Clutterbuck

   First published in 1990, Richard Clutterbuck's fascinating analysis of European security confronts the problems of internal European community frontiers and technological aids in combating terrorism and international crime. He looks at what the EC countries have done in the past, describes the...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Latin America and the Illusion of Peace

   By David R. Mares

   Series: Adelphi series

   This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin America’s contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of Latin America as a region of peace means that each time the use of force rises to the level of global attention (e.g., Ecuador-Peru 1995 or...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power

   Between Rising Naval Powers

   Edited by Sam Bateman, Joshua Ho

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both...

   Published May 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. On Nuclear Deterrence

    The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan

    By Tanya Ogilvie-White

    Series: Adelphi series

    This timely book, published in the lead up to the 2012-14 decision on Trident renewal, makes available for the first time the late Sir Michael Quinlan’s private correspondence on nuclear deterrence. It shows why Sir Michael, as Policy Director and then Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence...

    Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge